FILM and media studies students from Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College have been shortlisted for a national film award.

Enthusiasts Luke Hetherington, Richard Jones, Matthew Ingham and Jacob Crow have set up their own film production company, producing a series of short independent films and using YouTube to distribute them.

They entered one of their pieces into the Media Magazine production awards and have been shortlisted as finalists. Their film, Our of Depth, about a man who tries to get into a gang, will be screened in London before the winner is announced.

Nicola Naisbett, Media Course Leader at QE, says “This is a fantastic opportunity for the four students and such an honour to be shortlisted. The boys are well deserving candidates for the awards and have impressed me greatly over the course of the last two years with their drive and ambition to succeed in the film industry. They have taken the skills developed in the classroom and developed them to an excellent standard.

“We are very proud of them.”